How many of you guessed the whole thing out?

[kirby18]

Originally Posted by Death689God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0v7...feature=relmfu
13:50

Even this girl, who isn't all that bright, had it figured by first interaction.
It's all about being genre savvy. I aspire to be a writer myself some day, I saw this coming a mile a away. They were too nice and together, it's the apocalypse... Take a look at all the Nice Together Simple Folk in this Genre:
The old couple from the Book of Eli, The people from Andale from Fallout 3, etc.

It was pretty obvious... Who invites desperate, hungry people who pulled guns on you to your Dairy Farm during the Apocalypse? It's like it hasn't registered to these people that the world's ended... That's the biggest red flag there is.

No i agree with you there I just felt that in case of a zombie apocalypse there may be some, like myself, that would just want to help people out. I dont think its too far of a stretch too seeing as they live on a well defended farm.

[Death689God]

Originally Posted by kirby18

No i agree with you there I just felt that in case of a zombie apocalypse there may be some, like myself, that would just want to help people out. I dont think its too far of a stretch too seeing as they live on a well defended farm.

Yeah, but it's a game so it will typically conform to a Genre. However, IRL I would be cautious anyways. And the Questioning would really set me off.

[CapnJay]

they do just want to help people out. but they also need food to live to keep helping people and protein for the strength to keep helping them. Heck maybe after mark was eaten they might have had the others working on the farm and only sacrifice one if they couldn't make meat quota

[KeijoKala]

I never fully trusted them. It was just too good to be true. I only predicted the cannibal thing when the back room of the barn was opened. I had suspicions of many things before that moment, but that's the moment when I just went "Oh shit, cannibals". Then I realized that the food was Mark when Brenda stopped me from going to see him.

[adam86shadow]

In Episode 2

I knew the brothers were shifty the moment I saw 'em however we needed food. Then when they said that people have visited before my alarm bells rang. Why would anybody leave this perfect set up? Then I began questioning where this food comes from when there's only 1 cow... Surely 1 cow wouldn't sustain 3 people plus bandits for months... 3rd suspicion was when Brenda wouldn't let me see Mark.

By this time the Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe began. 4th suspicion was when (Andy?) said 'good' when I said the camera has no batteries. 5th was the woman and Andy's reaction. Not to mention the glee he had. 6th was the locked room and bloody clothes, by this time I just knew they we're killing and possibly eating people. Opening the door pretty much confirmed my suspicion but by 3rd suspicion I already had it in my head they're redneck cannibals. The blatant Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe was too much

[dubesor]

Yea, I thought they would try to harm us right in the beginning when they asked so many questions, making statements about if we are armed, how many we are etc...

And when the bandits talked about they didn't forfill their deal I thought the St. Johnsohns are only using people

And danny always looks like a psycho. Obviously the incident at the camp showed us something was up. It doesn't help the way he talks to his gun or the creepy way he talks about supper. I thought for sure that something is wrong with supper, that they will poison us or drug us. I didn't even think about the cannibalism tho,as they had plenty of food (you can see all the vegetables near the farm).

[Death689God]

There's already a thread for this, and my first impression was "Cannibals". Like, before the nosy questions on the walk to the Dairy Farm.

[adam86shadow]

Screamed out Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Milosuperspesh]

depends on the st johns idea of injured going to die anyway..

they tried to fry lee and mark then some how he gets an arrow...

by that reasoning if say mark get a paper cut or a splinter from the fences and still died you know any injury no matter how small will be used as an excuse to chop em up.

now one thing i'm a little unsure about is where do they chop up mark ? can't of been the barn as lilly and larry would of seen them..so they must of done it upstairs..

[The_Cheshire_Cat]

Originally Posted by Milosuperspesh

depends on the st johns idea of injured going to die anyway..

they tried to fry lee and mark then some how he gets an arrow...

by that reasoning if say mark get a paper cut or a splinter from the fences and still died you know any injury no matter how small will be used as an excuse to chop em up.

now one thing i'm a little unsure about is where do they chop up mark ? can't of been the barn as lilly and larry would of seen them..so they must of done it upstairs..

Yeah I remember the bathroom was really bloody. Had to be in there.

[Masta23]

The whole dinner scene reminds you a bit of the texas chainsaw massacre.
Anyway no.. I didn't suspect them straight away.

[TheWildcard]

Extremely predictable. I knew at the opening when they point out the trap had been altered that we were dealing with someone trying to catch people. I kind of figured it was cannibals and when the brothers walked up I was like yup thats them. Kind of figured the story was they were tracking the blood from the trap....

[Master of Aeons]

Originally Posted by TheWildcard

Extremely predictable. I knew at the opening when they point out the trap had been altered that we were dealing with someone trying to catch people. I kind of figured it was cannibals and when the brothers walked up I was like yup thats them. Kind of figured the story was they were tracking the blood from the trap....

Oh, I didn't get that those were their traps. Even though I saw them in the butcher room, I still thought those were the bandits'.

[NessaT]

I knew that something was wrong when Danny got all wierd about shooting Jolene. I thought perhaps they were psychos who kill people for fun (they wouldn't let me see Mark), but I didn't think they would eat Mark and leave him still alive for second helpings.

The only time I suspected they were cannibals was when I went up the stairs and Mark wasn't in there. That was quite an intense moment for me.

[Squeezit]

The entire time I was actually thinking of a scene straight out of the walking dead comics.
So I predicted it as well.

[ZombieGoBoom]

The family and their farm were too good to be true BUT expecting something and seeing it first hand...

Lee: "What happened to your legs man!"

Mark: "Don't... eat... dinner..."

Me: "Oh sh*t!"

[NessaT]

@ZombieGoBoom - Holy shit... yes... that creeped me out so damn bad. I was screaming at my screen to make Lee run faster. And of COURSE he had to trip at the bottom of the stairs. Hahahaa.

[zimka]

i am glad i did not guess it from the start, it would just suck, so i guess it's your loss if you can read these things on the fly.

at first i actually believed these folks had good intentions, and the game sets them up as creepy to throw the player off, so i handwaved that. it was only after the fence incident that i really started to question their motives. at the time i thought they needed the group as some sort of a bargaining chip in dealing with bandits. but even then i felt relative security, as the family was definitely outnumbered, and acting nonthreatening.

later, during the confrontation with the crazy lady it became obvious something was up, but i still couldn't figure out how the group fits into all of this, plus danny was so openly giddy after killing the crazy woman right in front of lee, it kinda confused me.

the cannibal realization came at the slaughterhouse, and luckily by this point i was expecting to see something that will put all the pieces together. but to be honest, i completely forgot about mark at that moment. i thought that the family was chopping down farmhands, and that's what's going to be for dinner.

only when getting upstairs and seeing mark with no legs i had the full picture.

also of note - someone asked why they needed all the VI tubes - danny told lee right before he died (or not) that in order to keep the meat fresh, the victim should stay alive. poor mark.

[CapnJay]

being genre savvy can be hell on the player however it can also make you unnecessarily paranoid. If Danny and Andy didn't turn out to be psychopaths i still might have murdered them out of Paranoia

[Master of Aeons]

Originally Posted by CapnJay

being genre savvy can be hell on the player however it can also make you unnecessarily paranoid. If Danny and Andy didn't turn out to be psychopaths i still might have murdered them out of Paranoia

That would have been awesome.

"Ya'll boys ready for cak - WOH MY GOODNESS! Lee! What have you done?"
"This isn't what it looks like!"